Military Cross Distinguished Flying Cross Air Force Cross & Two Bars
Wing Commander William Ronald Read, MC, DFC, AFC** (17 May 1885[1] − 1972[2]) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) officer of the First World War and the inter-war period. A pre-war member of the Royal Flying Corps (which became the RAF in 1918), he is one of only twelve officers to have so far received a second Bar to the Air Force Cross, signifying three awards of the medal.
^"Wing Commander Read Retires", The Times, 21 May 1932
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Wing Commander William Ronald Read, MC, DFC, AFC** (17 May 1885 − 1972) was a highly decorated Royal Air Force (RAF) officer of the First World War and...
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better part of a bottle of whisky, return to the motel to find Eva gone. Williereads her note and they go to the airport to stop her. Eva discusses with an...
executing robberies in disguises, he gained two nicknames, "Willie the Actor" and "Slick Willie". Sutton is also known as the namesake of the so-called Sutton's...
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never read books and had not the faintest idea that he was in Ulysses. His daughter was all the more startled one day, therefore, when Willie looked...
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attention of Willie Morris while she was a freshman. Finding her in the Holiday Inn bar one evening, Morris said to her, "My name is Willie Morris, and...
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autobiography, "Willie's Game", he won them all. After a short while, Mosconi was making a living as a professional pool player. Willie claimed he never...
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since. A frequent tagline reads, "Oor Wullie! Your Wullie! A'body's Wullie!" (Our Willie! Your Willie! Everybody's Willie!). Created by Thomson editor...
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June 3, 1998) was an American serial killer who, together with accomplice Willie Steelman, committed seventeen murders in the states of Arizona and California...